On 19 August 2014 12:18, Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@xxxxxx> wrote: > BTW, woud be nice to fix that TODO finally. Since "ipcs -m" internally > converts all these sizes to bytes we have to use large integer > arithmetics somehow to have correct output at all. Hi Rudi and others, I agree, it would be nice to be precise about sizes. But should util-linux have a lib/bigint.c or something similar to avoid dependency to external infinite precision implementation[1]? By glance there are some examples how to write bigint from scratch. And the examples are more or less directly advising against re-inventing the wheel. My feeling is that use of existing bigint implementation would be good decision, but one has to be able to disable the dependency when needed. I am guessing distributors who bootstrap systems would prefer that sort of setup. Comments, opinions? [1] https://gmplib.org/ -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
